Training With Dr.Romanov: BAREFOOT RUNNING Archives

BAREFOOT RUNNING

BAREFOOT AND HEALTHY
How's going barefoot connected to being healthy? Very directly. Lots of people have already found that out and are enjoying the benefits. Going barefoot holds many good things for everyone without exception. It will help you improve coordination, balance, perception, it will help you develop the foot muscles neglected and virtually atrophied due to wearing traditional shoes. Anyone even remotely familiar with Chinese medicine, or at least acupuncture, knows how vital the health of our feet is. A minor deviation could negatively reverberate through the entire body. Modern shoe industry completely disregards that, otherwise our shoes would look very different.... [Continue reading...]

BAREFOOT RUNNING
This topic became some kind of fashion in running community, so I felt it is necessary to share my limited knowledge and experience on barefoot running with the hope that it would be also beneficial to readers-runners and triathletes. What are the benefits of exercising barefoot? There are many beneficial aspects of barefoot running, it: Helps to develop better perception of the contact with the ground, which allows us to interact with support more efficiently, place the body weight on the foot more precisely; have better timing of the contact with the ground. Develops muscle strength, particularly in those groups... [Continue reading...]

BAREFOOT RUNNING
Dear all, running barefoot is a good base for learning to run proper, even though the notion of proper technique is not established yet among scientists, coaches and athletes. So we are using in our explanations something what we think is a proper technique, but no one yet got the final truth or proof, particularly those who are asking about the scientific proof. We are operating more with our experience, intuition, limited knowledge, beliefs and passion. And now barefoot running comes as a major component of learning the proper running technique. It looks to me as the next modern twist,... [Continue reading...]